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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Christmas in July: Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies: Day 10

If yesterday was about family tradition recipes from my side, then I must include one from Mark's side. This is his favourite Christmas cookie. As I mentioned I'm not really a candied cherry loving gal, so these aren't MY personal favourite, but he loves them, so they are now on my list to make every year.

Oh, that makes them sound gross. They're not. They have chocolate and nuts (so I guess if you don't like nuts, don't make these. Ha!). I can't tell you how excited he was to come home and found I had made them in the SUMMER time. I told him to thank my blog. So, thanks to all of you for reading, so that I have motivation to post and thus Mark got his favourite cookie.

Jewel Bars
(These came from Mark's mom. I have no idea if they were originally in a cook book in order to give credit)

**When my mother-in-law originally gave me the recipe she said that she didn't like how thin they were when you made them in the jelly roll pan, sometimes they fall apart (and when you put the crust part in it's hard to get it to cover the bottom). So she generally makes these in a 9x13 inch pan. I forgot this and mine that are pictured were in the jelly roll pan. They are harder to stick together in the larger pan, but if you get it right, I like the thickness of the finished square better. Try it both ways and see which you prefer.

4 comments:

my grandmother has been making these every year for countless years...mainly because I countdown the days for them...and yes, the crust is hard to master, though she's always used a baking sheet and has to pat it down

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